“I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.”— Trevor Noah, list.co.uk
“Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world. It is the biggest family in the world is the football. The same passion you have here in Turkey, we have in Brazil, they have in Russia, they have in Germany, they have... you know football is the only sport where you put people together, you…”— Pele, global-leaders.tv
“Instead, Roseanne’s cackling drowns these stories out—that’s what star power is.”— Emily Nussbaum, newyorker.com
“I don't see myself as the Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.”— Tiger Woods, en.wikiquote.org
“So that saying, in the struggle between the negro and the crocodile, &c., is made up from the idea that down where the crocodile inhabits a white man can't labor; it must be nothing else but crocodile or negro; if the negro does not the crocodile must possess the earth; [Laughter] in that case he de…”— Abraham Lincoln, historyplace.com
“When one starts poor, as most do in the race of life, free society is such that he knows he can better his condition; he knows that there is no fixed condition of labor, for his whole life. I am not ashamed to confess that twenty five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat…”— Abraham Lincoln, historyplace.com
“I have never said anything to the contrary, but I hold that notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as m…”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“He doesn't give a damn about black or white. The only color that son of a bitch cares about is green.”— Virgil Williams, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com
“Bob: Wait, I know how we can get back in front of Pesto. Linda: Bob, it's not a race. Bob: That's right, it's not a race, Lin. It's a war. Gene: It's a race war. Bob: Gene.”— Steven Davis, Bob Belcher (voice), H. Jon Benjamin, imdb.com
“What becomes of the noblest field ever opened for the advancement of our race in religion, in government, in the arts, and in all that dignifies and adorns mankind?”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races.”— Abraham Lincoln, quod.lib.umich.edu
“The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.”— Gilbert Baker, militaryoneclick.com
“You would think….You would think the cops would occasionally shoot a white kid…just to make it look good. You would think that every couple of months they’d look at their dead nigga calendar and go…”— Chris Rock, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“Pretty soon, there's not gonna be any Jew or Aryan or Hindu or Muslim or Mexican or Blacks. There's just gonna be the rich and the fucked, and our grandson is already one of the fucked.”— Dominique Morisseau, Frank Gallagher, William H. Macy, imdb.com
“It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“The colored people did not intrude themselves upon us. They were brought here in chains and held in the communities where they are now chiefly found by a cruel slave code. Happily for both races, they are now free.”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“But notwithstanding all this, in many parts of our country where the colored population is large the people of that race are by various devices deprived of any effective exercise of their political rights and of many of their civil rights. The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are…”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org